Welcome to Episode 2 of the Analytive Podcast! In this episode, we talk about bitcoin, blockchain, and the impact that it could have on the marketing industry. Will blockchain fundamentally change the way we do marketing? Or is it just a bunch of hype? In this episode, we do our best to give answers to […]

A couple weeks ago a local roofing company began installing new shingles on my house. I didn’t know exactly when they were going to start, so it was a bit of a surprise when I rolled up and they were already started. No big deal. I just pulled into the garage and began to go […]

This weekend I spent two days skiing in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The snow was amazing and watching the sunset over the mountains is one of my favorite pastimes. It helps clear the mind. On the way up to the mountains, we drove through Cameron pass. Driving through Cameron pass, you’ll notice signs for a local […]

Over the past few months, we’ve brought on several new clients with Analytive. Many of these companies work with (or have worked with) other agencies. All of them have marketing efforts pushed in various directions throughout the digital sphere. But as we onboard them and see what the marketing team is working on, there’s one […]

There’s a problem in marketing today. It’s a problem that I see everywhere and with nearly every company. It’s the phenomenon of content-free content. It’s the ability to say anything without saying anything. Highly educated humans are good at it. Politicians are some of the best. Executives are pretty good too. But it’s hard to […]

If there’s a single question I get asked about Analytics the most, it’s “What does this mean?” *If your meme knowledge is a little sparse, check out the classic video here. Every time I sit in a room with a good marketer or executive and we start running through numbers, that’s the question I get. And […]

Last week, Elon Musk and SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy rocket – currently the largest rocket in the world. If you’ve been living under a rock, I should tell you that Elon also runs several other companies: the largest one being Tesla. Popular culture portrays Elon as a hero. And rightly so, he’s built multiple […]

The first is Demand Capture. The second is Demand Generation. Every Facebook ad, print ad, sales pitch, and event sponsorship fall into one of these two buckets. Demand Capture is about getting in front of people who are already looking for you. The demand is there. People are searching. You just simply need to get […]

This past week I received one of those marketing catalogs in the mail. You know, the ones that have about 250 ads and that’s it. No useful content or writing. As a marketer, I always thumb through them trying to see the ads. This ad caught my eye: I blacked out the business info because […]